trump: is there anything better than a trump rally? >> no. mr.: what about a sleepy joe biden rally? [booing] mr. trump: some beauties. [laughter] i sort of hope it is him. i don't mind any of them. you got pocahontas is rising. [booing] mr. trump: you got kamala, kamala is falling. [crowd booing] mr. trump: you got beto. [crowd booing] mr. trump: beto is like gone. but we will see what happens, you know, whoever it is, i don't know it matters but different, different people. i think sleepy joe may be able to limp across the finish line. but today they announced that they are going to cut way back on his appearances because he is such a disaster, they are going to have fewer appearances. you've heard that, right? they are going to cut back on his appearances. could you believe it? if i ever did that, it would be over. the fake news would get us, but we don't let them get us because it is fake. and today the deputy editor of the new york times was demoted. isn't that beautiful? [crowd booing] [applause and cheers] mr. trump: all the news that is n

using trump's own language.eighing in on things that the justice department actually has no role in. the one that i want to think about as we have this conversation about whether barr should be the guy who is investigating the buck stops with him on ep seen in obstruction, epstein, anything else. >> who gets to claim immunity, who gets to claim executive privilege. there's nothing that there justice won't do seemingly to protect the president. the thing i wanted to bring attention to mark stern at late wrote about this last week, it was an extraordinary friend of the court brief that was filed in a lawsuit going on right now in washington, d.c. the house oversight committee is trying to get hold of trump's financial records from the past eight years from an accounting firm. district court judge said absolutely, no reason they can't see it. this is part of oversight. it went up to the federal appeals court. the district -- the d.c. circuit court of appeals. panel heard it. over they're making a decision and here'

i think donald trump is beatable.to beat an incumbent president, particularly with the current campaign finance laws in which an incumbent president can raise unlimited money. the last incumbent not in the federal funding system to lose wa herbert hoover and he had a bad year. but it's ominous. if the democrats get their act together and coalesce behind a really good ticket, they should be able to win this race. but i do think, looking at polls now, trying to predict what's going to happen november 2020, is not very useful. >> and stewart, we do know historically that when an incumbent president is challenged in the primaries within his own party, that incumbent president never wins re-election, every single time it's happened. >> yeah, it's interesting. if you sort of drill down, whether or not that's a leading or trailing indicator. the fact that there is a primary, an indication of a larger weakness, and that's why he loses? or the fact that he's in a primary why he loses? the reality is the primaries have proven d

this is just six things. >> trump store, ground level. trump cafe, ground level. but i will say, if you're thirsty for a coffee, it's easy to figure out where starbucks is. >> level two. >> the trump building includes five floors of retail. unless you spend a very, very long time in the lobby or wade through a mountain of public records, it is not easy to find out who takes the elevators to the office floors and 39 stories of luxury condos above. that's always been the case even before he was president. >> they're not being transparent about who is doing business here. >> donald trump's potential conflict of interests begin with his clients and tenants. dan alexander and his team have been piecing that information together. >> it's a business with a lot of tentacles. and everywhere you look you find conflicts. >> how do you do it? how do you figure out with donald trump has conflicts of interest that strike at the heart of american democracy. >> donald trump has to list, hey, i own this skyscraper. but he doesn't have to say anything about how the actual business

trump: no. what happens is china devalues their currency, and china is polling money out, and that will pay for the tariffs. i don't say that with all with china, they are very highly sophisticated, but so are we. more than anybody would understand. all you have to do is ask china. all you have to do is ask china. let me just explain. so, china is devaluing their currency and they are also pouring money in. their currency is going to hell. but there are also pouring money in. and that will totally pay for the tariffs. the tariffs are not being paid for by our people, it is being paid for by china, because of the evaluation, and because they are pumping money and. thank you. >> [reporter's question indiscernible] pres. trump: well, you interviewed the wrong farmer, number one. number two, any amount china takes out is made up by the billions of dollars we are taking in. remember this, our country is taking in billions of dollars from china. we never took in $.10 from china, and out of that many b

trump: thank you.t is great to be joined by a number of champions for americans' veterans, including secretary of education betsy devos. betsy? betsy, doing a great job. deputy v.a. secretary james byrne. james, thank you. great job. a man who has really done a great job, i do not know if the is always appreciated, that he has done an incredible job, and your state is doing phenomenal business, and i want to take all of the credit, but i can't, because he has done a lot, too, because he has been a truly great governor, matt bevin. thank you, matt. kentucky has had record numbers some of the best they've ever had in any category. it is a really incredible thing. and a man that i just watched on television, he is so good. congressman thomas massie, where is thomas? good job. thomas, say hello to our friends back in washington. that was a good job. i just watched you. i cannot come to kentucky without also praising the exceptional work of senator mitch mcconnell. [applause] pres. trump: i have to tell you

if donald trump gave that answer on a tv game show, even trump voters would know that donald trump is going to lose that game show. everyone at the g7 is reading the polls in the united states that give them every reason to hope that donald trump will only be attending one more g7 meeting. and they know that the next president to attend the g7 meeting after donald trump will never say that the solution to anything is "the right whatever." leading off our discussion tonight, ambassador wendy sherman, secretary of state for political affairs and msnbc global affairs contributor, and an msnbc political analyst. wendy sherman, there is so much to react to in this g7 weekend. i leave it open to you to take your pick. >> it's really as i sort of said half tongue in cheek a doozy. they treated him, the other leaders, with kid gloves because they didn't want to agitate as what they perceive as really a child who could throw a temper tantrum at any moment. your whole riff on tariffs is so true, lawrence, because the president only looks -- even though he said in his press conference today he d

when he got elected i tried to do the good trump/bad trump thing. give him a pat on the back when he did something good, attack him when he did something bad. i'm on conservative talk show radio, all they want to hear is the seanty b hannity bad. the guy walks on water. to be honest, i didn't pay that much attention to him. i thought he would make a few jokes and that was it. but every time he opened his mouth and he lied and he lost me for sure at helsinki when he stood in front of the world and said i'm with putin, he's my friend, i don't like my intelligence community. that was it and i have never, ever gone back. >> what do you think the best and most effective way, because the idea of his fitness -- >> he's nuts. nuts. >> the truth is that whether people say it disparagingly or affectionately, anyone who comes in contact with him comes away saying he's crazy but this is a hard story to cover and hard attack to make. what are sort of your proof points? >> he's a psychopath, he lies every time he opens his mouth, he's the big of the narcissist we

this is the crown jewel of the donald trump empire. >> this is where he made his mark. >> trump towers the home base for donald trump and his sprawling real estate portfolio. this iconic building has served both for his popular reality show that aired on nbc "the apprentice" and as the launchpad for the most improbable campaign to succeed. look at all the different windows. who's paying what money to where inside that building? this is trump international? >> yep. hotel and tower. so there are apartments here, but it is also a hotel. >> i've never heard of one person that stayed in that hotel. >> saudis have stayed there. and not just any saudis. according to a letter obtained by nbc news, officials traveling with crown prince mohammed bin salman stayed at the trump international for five days following a white house visit in march 2018. >> there was a letter by the general manager saying the saudis have helped us with our bottom line. but just because you might see the trump name on a building doesn't mean donald trump owns it. >> so every single one of these have the trump name on i

of trump enterprises. and congress one question needs to be addressed by the investigative committee why did trump fire james komi. why do you believe you were fired. so i don't know for sure i believe the prick think the president at his word that i was fired because of the russian versification something about the way i was conducting it the president felt created pressure on him they wanted to relieve he was asking for something and i was refusing to give it. and fact early in his term trump asked to speak to komi in private. there was a meeting at the white house a one on one meeting between trump and call me call me must have had his antenna up because he felt like something was wrong because as soon as he was done that meeting he wrote up these memos. after meeting with trump call me sat in his car and wrote down what was discussed the meeting was about general fled the advisor who had lied about his contacts with russia trump said he hoped komi come let the matter go. i hope you can let this go now

he said i've never seen -- they have trump banners and trump hats and trump buttons.eering] pres. trump: true. in this great congressman said, i don't know, but i can tell you one thing, if the rest of the country is voting like tennessee is voting, you are going to win by a lot. and we won. and we won by a lot. [cheering] pres. trump: our nation is stronger today than ever before. [cheering] pres. trump: we have the number one economy on earth. no economy is close. [cheering] pres. trump: we are rebuilding the awesome might of the united states military, and soon it will be stronger, relatively speaking, than at any time in our history. and when we took over, it was depleted. [cheering] pres. trump: we took over a depleted military. it is not depleted anymore, i can tell you that. our spirit is strong, our stride is back, and our stand is clear. we are finally putting america first. it is about time. [cheering] [chanting "usa!"] pres. trump: we have created 6 million new jobs since election day. nobody would have thought that was possible. more than 7 million america

something that still upsets trump. extrapolate from ratcliffe's qualifications for the job, what his white house -- what this white house occupant is really looking for in the next director of national intelligence. it might say things like must be willing to attack special counsel robert mueller, must want to settle trump's scores for the russia investigation. or as the economist put it, donald trump wants a loyalist as america's top intelligence official. r and it might end sooner than we think. trump says he's got a short list in his pocket with three names on it and he'll be mulling it this weekend while you pay for his vacay at his golf resort in new jersey. the director of national intelligence, senator mark warner said the president should nominate someone with a deep knowledge of the intelligence community with respect for the hard work they do and be able to speak truth to power when necessary. joining us now is senator ron wyden. when the president tweeted he was withdrawing the nomination today, senator wide

this is the 35th time one of trump's nominations went busto, forcing trump to pull a 180. ratcliff's demise says about the white house vetting process, watch this. >> i think the white house has a great vetting give a name, i g out to the press, and you vet for me. the vetting process for the white house is very good. but you're part of the vetting process, you know? i give out a name to the press and they vet for me. we save a lot of money that way. >> oh, okay. your vetting process is our fault. got it. you're also saving money by not vetting anybody, and letting us do it for you. perfection. so maybe we shouldn't be surprised that ratcliff met this fate. as we wait for round two of presidential roulette dni addition, this is more than just a mere hiring decision. the zrvegs dni is the top intel official in the nation, coordinating all the other agencies. who the president picks for ha gig matters. it determines the strength of the entire intelligence community. and it's not hard to see why donald trump might want to reign in the intelligence agent sis. the intelligence

donald trump's erratic behavior raising the prospect of a tea party primary against trump. rudy giuliani admitting the state department is helping his push for a foreign government to the investigate trump's opponents, aka attempted collusion. a liberal economist shaping racial justice policy for 2020 demes is right on "the beat." we begin with the alarm bells ringing all over washington, signs that donald trump is rattled and some republicans on edge. "new york times" reporting former trump officials worried about his behavior, rising pressure on trump clearly with the economy and his jitters over re-election. >> any jewish people that vote for a democrat i think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty. >> isn't that anti-semitic? >> it's only anti-semitic in your head. >> we're talking about indexing. > i'm not looking to do indexing. > i've been thinking about payroll taxes. >> we don't need it. >> bring up background checks like we've never had before. >> we have very, very strong background checks right now. >> the prime minister's statement that

donald trump.t forward today, donald trump who is brash and demanding says i talked to mitch on the phone, not that i told mitch to get back here to washington and have a special session, not that i said the senate ought to be doing this and break a day in their recess. and by the way i'm on my way to the hamptons to a fundraiser. hurry up because i've got to go over there and pick up some money. but then i'm going on an extended vacation. even though i've lied to you every time before, after that, we are going to do this. what are we going to do? we're going to do background checks. we are not even going to talk about assault weapons. the fact of the matter is that this whole tape you played where he says that there ain't no guys in there with a gun they won't come, they came. walmart is in a carry state. there was no way that 21-year-old didn't know people in that walmart didn't have guns. they sell guns at walmart. he didn't care anyway. he came in and started shooting knowing somebody could've

trump. in others it will be played with the deadly darkness of shakespeare's richard the iii. and if we are lucky, future audiences watching all of the plays about the madness of donald trump will be watching them the way i watched the madness of george iii in 1992. they will be watching something that feels like it happened a long time ago in a crazy moment in history that could never come again. if we're lucky, when future audiences are looking back at it, the madness of donald trump will look like a four-year explosion in our politics and culture that came and went within the space of two presidential elections and all of the polling that came out this week strongly supports the possibility that the trump presidency will crash into democracy on the next election night and this time lose. donald trump has an approval rating which, if it holds, makes it impossible for him to be re-elected. "the associated press" shows 62% disapprove of donald trump's job appearance with 36% approving. there

trump. 54% prefer a democratic party nominee with a strong chance of beating donald trump. 39% prefer a democratic party nominee who shares their positions on major issues. in that poll, joe biden continues to lead the democratic field with 29% of the vote. that is up 7 points since june -- since june and that cnn poll. the poll does not show significant gains for any other candidate. bernie sanders is at 15%. that's up 1 point. elizabeth warren is at 14%. that's down 1 point. kamala harris is down 5% and that's down 12 points since june. pete buttigieg is at 5%. that's just up 1 point. and beto o'rourke is still at 3% with no change since june. no other candidate gets more than 2% of the vote in that poll. there is good polling news for democrats in senate races also. in arizona, a new poll shows the incumbent republican senator martha mcsally not only running below 35 below 50%, which in itself would be a very bad indicator for any incumbent, but it shows her running likely behind her demo

trump: maybe neutral.eporter: [indiscernible] the democrats are calling you and your supporters the white nationalists. does that help you? pres. trump: i don't like it when they do it. i am not any of those things. it's a disgrace. it shows how desperate the democrats are. right now i'm working with the democrats on meaningful background checks. that's a big thing. hopefully we can do something. i don't want to focus too much on that. i will say this. for them to throughout the race word, racist, racist, racist -- that is all they use. they called nancy pelosi racist. she is not a racist. they call anybody racist when they run out of cards. i am winning in the polls. they are desperate. they have lousy candidates. they have bad candidates. i watched the debates. well, joe biden can't answer a simple question. something is going wrong with him. the only thing is a lot of people think that he was the one that wanted bob mueller to testify. it made joe look intelligent. reporter: is your base supporting back

trump: go ahead. to france, yes. >> china was not on the official agenda but it was certainly a big part of the discussions here at the g7. are you concerned that the trade war that exists now between the united states and china could harm the global economy? if you are, did you talk to president trump about that? aboute you also concerned if china's current trade practices go unchecked, in a decade from now, we could be in a terrible situation? pres. macron: [speaking french] translator: we obviously had lengthy discussions. during the session, the world economy yesterday morning. on both subjects. the discussions underway between china and the united states of america, obviously as we clearly see creates uncertainty, which disturbed markets and investors. and during the negotiations will create tensions which is a a -- is the case of any discussion. we saw this on different stock markets with which you are familiar. now the question is to know what the results of these discussions will be, and that'

>> donald trump coddles the nra. donald trump loves the nra. donald trump has no reason to be afraid of it because he sees them as an ally. at the end of the day his policies will be lined up with the nras. >> let me show you all of the things donald trump has attributed the epidemic of guns, violence to in his career. >> mental illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun. we must stop the glorification of violence in our society. this includes the gruesome and grisly video games that are now commonplace. bad guys aren't giving up their guns. and you're not going to be giving up your guns either. if we had guns in california on the other side where the bullets went in a different direction, you wouldn't have 14 or 15 people dead right now. if even in paris they had guns on the other side going in the opposite direction, you wouldn't have 130-plus dead. if they knew there were guns in the room, it might not have happened. >> where do you start? >> when you have a presidential candidate that says i can shoot someone on fifth avenue and get

we don't work for donald trump.ry day americans and so we have a constitutional responsibility to be as a check and balance on an out-of-control executive branch. we are undertaking a lawful constitutional legislative oversight responsibilitieses. bill barr is rewriting the constitution claiming we have no legitimate purpose. the constitution is our legitimate purpose. >> uh-huh. and that lays out sort of battle in the courts. then you have the specific issue of mr. bill barr. dal la lithwick is a legal scholar, an independent expert, not a part of your democratic team but she has argued here on "the beat" there is a problem with how mr. barr's carrying out his role. take a look. >> it feels like barr sort of leaping in front of the president yet again and saying first and foremost, my interest is not the justice department or the united states people. it's protecting this president. >> win or lose, the courts are ultimately going to decide and it could go to the supreme court which we just heard from in a different

when he first got elected, i tried to do the whole good trump, bad trump thing. it became pretty clear to me that the man basically lies every time he opens his mouth. i think the guy stokes bigotry. i think he stokes racism. but i think it's all about trump. i don't think he's a racist. it's just all, whatever benefits donald trump, that's all i care about. >> and walsh was elected to congress in 2010 as part of the tea party movement. he served one term. he has a history of incendiary remarks himself, including calling president obama a muslim, enemy and traitor, and during that interview he apologized for that. >> i said some ugly things about president obama that i regret. >> do you believe he's a muslim. >> no, and i've apologized for that. we have a guy in the white house who's never apologized for anything he has done or said. i think it's a weakness not to apologize. i helped create trump. there's no doubt about that. the personal ugly politics. i regret that, and i'm sorry for that. >> and coming up on "morning joe," former congressman joe walsh will be

trump's tari tariff hikes caught trump offguard on friday night. they had been saying they would retaliate against the new tariffs mr. trump announced earlier on $300 billion of china's imports. one thing to note, the countertariffs are not dollar per dollar. the chinese are running out of things to tax on. this could mean the chinese government could launch more ca barriers against the business here. there are a few american companies names that have been floating to be put on that list for some time. they can delay licensing deals or customs clearance, just making american companies' life difficult. that would be more escalation in this trade war that shows no sign of ending anytime soon. >> you know, over here, donald trump says that the u.s. economy can outlast the chinese economy in this trade war. how long can china last here? >> that's the thing. mr. trump has made a lot of claims, including how the chinese economy is hurting and all of the tariffs he put on chinese goods are more money going to the u.s. treasury. a lot of the claims are bei

markets also afraid of trump and china's trade war. and trump took that head on today too. the tweet we are winning big time against china. well only time will tell on this. but as for winning right now trump's war with mcis hurting the united states. big time. trump first slapped tariffs on chinese goods in june of 2018. and compared to a year ago u.s. exports to china fell 19% this july. bad for us. meantime, americans bought more from china than they did a year ago. trump knows the economy can make or break him. he knows this all too well. just listen to trump. >> last year for the first in a decade the united states was ranked the most competitive economy anywhere in the world. >> i made the economy so strong that nothing is going to stop us. >> we have the number one economy on earth. >> our country now has the hottest economy anywhere in the world. >> our economy is fantastic. >> that's not what the markets are saying tonight. and so trump is blaming someone else one of his favorite boggy moon jerome powell. china is not our problem, though hong kong isn't helping. th

he liked trump. i came in and he said, sir -- he is a great veteran -- he said sir, i have cancer, and -- they wereo the late. they had problems. go outve me the right to and have a great cancer surgeon. you look much better than you did three years ago, al, much better, much better. halal.oice, right, .hank you for your loyalty he has been in every rally. got so tired of looking at him. now, look at him. that's good. i appreciate that story. choice just -- v.a. makes sense, right? doesn't it make sense? we have achieved record funding for the united states military, billion, and $700 $738 billion, and it is almost completely rebuilt, including -- and we hope to god we never have to use it -- we have the finest, most powerful nuclear capability anywhere on the face of the earth. [cheers and applause] pres. trump: and i hope to god we never have to use it. we are investing in the future of human spaceflight, and someday soon, american astronauts will plant the stars and stripes surface of mars. [appla

she is sounding a lot like trump. like economic patriotism, let's get to the republican strategist, your take on the policies, green new deal, medicare for all, breakup agribusiness and big tech. government mission to start a business. >> she is selling her self as a class warrior and a capitalist. her policies don't matter rhetoric. she is calling for the indo corporation, the government expansion and that's about exactly what a capitalist says and does. she's trying to pull over the voters eyes and it may indeed work because a lot of voters are angry with the establishment. >> she wants to raise individual and corporate taxes, she wants a new wealth tax, she wants to kill the electoral college, on and on. i want to move on to this, joe walsh, cnn and msnbc are having them on as a guest, he is trying to blame the loss of his radio show because these challenging trump on the nomination claimant had nothing to do with the racist tweets he has made. here is another tweet, the single greatest act of racism and making his

trump's casino economy. this week's ominous storm warnings from the bond markets, china, and germany show a looming recession or maybe worse. are trump's erratic trade grenades equivalent to what he did to his casinos in the '90s? >> come to the casino in atlantic city. it's more than a hotel. it's a resort. how about this? it's got action, it's got night life, the whole deal. it's too much. it's too much, isn't it? i like that. you're gonna love it. >> and that was just one of his six bankruptcies. jonathan lemire, is a $39 hotel room in vegas a precursor to the $4 billion in debt, one of the many things along with the trade wars, all of a sudden china and germany showing signs of softening and the market starting to crater? >> right. the whole deal for this president is the economy. he and his team are banked on th banking on that. granted of course he inherited a strong economy from president obama, it was already on the rise. for most measures, the economy has been pretty good during president trump's te

trump escalated the trade war that mr. trump initiated. the president flirting a big with authoritarianism with this tweet directed at america's business community. our great american companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to china. the result of the president's tweets, the dow plunged more than 600 points as the president headed off to france for his g7 meeting with world leaders, already nervously eyeing a slowsi slowing world economy. donald trump came into office promising to discard traditional alliances and practices. for better or worse, he's delivered on that promise. now real questions are being raised about whether the united states can be counted on to provide the leadership the world has come to expect from it since the end of the second world war. >> getting a lot of money in tariffs. >> reporter: as president trump meets with u.s. allies anxious about a slowing global economy, his own volatility is raising questions about his ability to manage the world's largest one. the president is rat

president trump: i do, i do. the question was, do i see a connection between hong kong and what's going on with the tray talks? i think it -- trade talks? i think if it weren't for the tray talks, honk -- trade talks, hong kong would be in much more trouble. it puts us in a bad position if there is not a humane weight of handling the problem -- way of handling the problem. i let them know, handle it in a humane fashion. i do believe that because of what i am doing with trade, that is very much keeping down the temperature in hong kong. i think by really a lot, because china wants to make a deal. i actually think china has to make a deal, but that is holding it down in hong kong. you understand that, right? >> [indiscernible] president trump: i think it was automatic. i don't say fire or not fire. i think she had a bad night. it was unfortunate. drinking.he was the whole thing was very unfortunate and i think the press is very dishonest because it was supposed to be off the record. but still, you don't say things

to trump.ally people who would know better. in other words, derangement goes both ways. >> it's a brilliant insight. we could name friends and former republican allies that -- whose views were consistent with ours for the past 30 to 40 years who now have been overcome by trump derangement syndrome. and now are acting like they never did before donald trump won the nomination in 2016. in fact, look at the words of lindsey graham before trump won the nomination. said that he was crazy, said that donald trump would destroy the republican party. that he would destroy america. and then look what he said after. you can look at what mike pence was quietly saying before hand to people saying he would destroy the republican party and then what he said after. mike pompeo talked about donald trump being an autocratic straw man. mike pompeo has been most affected by trump derangement syndrome and tom, this is what i don't understand. donald trump is going to leave washington at some point. and this derange

and so people saw that, and the sort of absurdity of donald trump, i mean, donald trump as president? it just sounded absurd. this is a reality tv star president. americans wouldn't want that. not after we were the country that produced obama. and i think people just couldn't fathom that that many americans, 62 million people, would choose that over progress. but michael moore, i was on with michael moore on realtime, and i recount the story, and i'm sitting between him and tony schwartz, and he predicted donald trump is going to win. i can't believe it, i'm a data girl, democrats should be able to build on what barack obama did in 2012 and one. and michael moore said something interesting, he said a lot of white americans look at that eight years of obama, and they say, okay, great. next we're going to have a woman president. we're told now we have to have hillary. then the gay president, the latino president, where does it stop? so in their mind, the forward march of progress is a backward march for them. the sense that the country is being lost and sliding away is deep-seeded and r

trump: and for japan. >> yes. are you still considering imposing section 232 tariffs on japan's auto exports to the united states on national security grounds? pres. trump: not at this moment. no. that's one of the reasons we made this deal but not at this moment. it's something i could do at a later date but we're not looking at that, we just want to be treated fairly. japan has had a tremendous trade surplus for many years long before i came here. i'll tell you something, we are transforming our country. we're taking the horrible , one-sided, foolish, very dumb, stupid, if you would like to use that word, because it is so descriptive, we are taking these trade deals that are so bad and we're making good, solid deals out of them. and that is transforming our country. that will be transformative and very exciting i think for our country, very exciting. go ahead. >> thank you, mr. president. pres. trump: i didn't actually say yes, the one behind her. why don't we do her first, you have been asking questions all day

trump, president trump represented the change that we all wanted.t could have been anybody's name. but they could not have done what mr. trump, president trump has done. say that i appreciate c-span and thank you very much. host: thank you for the call. -- youou can see as a can see as this plays out, the play words that the president would say be unto terms, you can follow him on twitter. good morning, but there'll. -- good morning, darrell. caller: it was the democratic party in the 1970's that seemed to be the advocate for freedom of speech. now it seems like the democratic party is the one who wants to stop any freedom of speech. they restrict who comes to speak on their campuses of the universities. it is the republican party who is -- it almost seems like the democratic party has become the party of -- kind of like the hitler's youth. i can see the day where there were -- where there will be book burnings. also, it's, you can't get straight news anymore. there is no walter cronkite anymore. you have to listen to both sides and come up with the

trump notes is top to bottom three pages and trump says was beautiful.ests are all feign. what's your reaction to that? >> well, kim jong un is getting it both ways here. he is continuing missile testing which of course are a violation of u.n. security council resolutions. and apparently as long as he sends the beautiful letters -- love letters back and forth and he is playing to his own military constituency, and because they're not intercontinental range, the president rationalizes that doesn't pose a threat to the united states. well it does, as you indicated, because of our forces and families that are now positioned in south korea, not to mention south korea itself as well as japan. so this is -- it's a really good deal for kim jong un. i wish in the love letters it would have a serious exchange, first an answer to a questionto be posed to kim jong un, what is it you need to feel sufficient lip secure that you don't need nuclear weapons? in the absence of knowing that i don't know how we have any negotiating strategy. and it would be cool if we agr

i think the leaders are waiting trump out. i think they are waiting trump out.ey have to race this is very unusual president of the united states to his unpredictable as we saw today and he was all over the map on china and first he called the president and enemy and then he said he was going to rethink his position on the ta riffs to rethink his position on the tariffs and he said no, that tariffs should have been higher and then today once again just before the stock market went up he said he wa nted stock market went up he said he wanted to have talks and he received some communication from china which of course did jamie said it was not the case. >> it's as you say it very hard to keep up. it's very hard for foreign leaders to keep up. i was interested to see president trump in his relationship with emmanuel macron because there was a lot there mr trump could not have been happy about, being ambushed for lunch, the iranian foreign minister turning up, mr trying to talk about climate change but then mr trump has this ability to be funny, take a listen to this

trump: say it? reporter: do you want powell to resign? pres. trump: do i want him to resign? let me put it this way, if he did, i would not stop him. reporter: [inaudible] pres. trump: he is a very good competitor, but we are going to win. reporter: [inaudible] the foreign aid cuts? pres. trump: they are going to be -- rather than renegotiating everything again, i'm going to do the way i just said. we will be distributing that money differently. reporter: [inaudible] denmark? pres. trump: she's a wonderful woman, we had a great conversation. we have a very good relationship with denmark, and we agreed to speak later. she was very nice. she put a call in and i appreciated it very much. reporter: how far are you willing to push china? pres. trump: china has been hurting our country for 30 years with the money they have been taking out. other presidents should have done something about it, and a long time ago -- whether it was clinton, or bush, or obama -- any of them. they should have done something about it, and they didn't. i'm doing it. i have no choice, because we are not g

trump: yes, i am. reporter: you are? pres. trump: yes, i am. yes, i am. reporter: since the mueller hearing, 168 house democrats so they want to launch a house inquiry. pres. trump: no one has mentioned this question to me. until last night it was not even mentioned in the debate. people are already thinking it is a hoax. you know it is a hoax, right? nobody has mentioned it to me. one thing i will say that you haven't covered, two days ago, a highly respected judge in the southern district of new york , in manhattan, came out with the decision on the whole russia hoax and he said exactly that. it is a hoax. you want to read the decision. this is a decision by a judge who is highly respected, appointed by bill clinton. he said it is a hoax. this was a case brought by the democrats against me, and nobody wants to talk about it because it is fake news. reporter: what did you tell putin about the imf treaty? pres. trump: we did not discuss the imf. mostly we discussed the forest fires in siberia. i said we have the greatest equipment. we have large sections

laughing about the trump lies.t we said back then was that the el paso police department estimated that beto o'rourke's crowds between 10,000 and 15,000 people and everyone in that room yesterday knows that. they know that it was not 400 people. but most importantly, no one in that room except donald trump and the third mrs. trump care about that crowd now. no one cares about that this week. no one cared about that in that hospital yesterday except donald trump and that is because donald trump's untreatable lifelong preversion is he appears to care about no human being other than himself and he makes that manifest in every public moment that requires a demonstration that he is capable of caring about other people. capable of empathy. the white house propaganda video yesterday was designed to pretend that donald trump cares about other people. a report from cnn.com says that according to an el paso hospital official, there was a general assessment there was an absence of empathy on trump's part during his visit to t

donald trump doesn't get it. but this president doesn't understand is that like every other nation on earth, we are unable to define what constitutes america by religion, by ethnicity, or by tribe. you can't do it. america is an idea. an idea stronger than any army. eger than any ocean. more powerful than any dictator or tyrant. it gives hope to the most desperate people on earth. values not only are our under assault, our democracy is as well. a free press, an independent judiciary. a legislature that is the coequal branch of government. these other guardrails. [applause] these other guardrails of our democracy. they are written into our constitution. if you have noticed, for the last two years they have been under attack. phrases like fake news. enemy of the people. they are no joke. they are insidious. they are corrosive. just look around the world. the worst despots are using trumps language to justify their own abuses of power. to weaken ourg institutions, the press, the courts, congress, precisely because t

here trump's under water by 7 points. finally there are white women with a high school degree, okay? in 2016 they went for trump by almost 30 points. now he only has a 4-point edge. look at that. and for all the talk about how the trump ledge is about the nonworking white class, these men work for the same companies and face a challenge or worse like men without a degree. they also have watched loved ones succumb to opioid addictions, all the same issues and trump is barely holding on there. that's the state of play right now. trump thinks he can run this strategy that cleaves the country into two chunks where he gets 40 plus%. he thinks he can win and govern with that 40 plus percent. and it is a wild test of american mechanics to see if that is going to work a second time. remember the things trump does to consolidate his base also alienates people. they announced they were endorsing trump's re-election, one of their board members jennifer horn decided it was too much for her. and she was telling "the washington post,"

i think it was against trump. >> carrie sheffield: against trump it was not never trump it was against trump. >> brent bozell: that's exactly what it was. i get endorsed and produced. i was asked to submit a piece as to why i was supporting to cruise over donald trump. in the book, i stand by it. donald trump didn't walk with conservatives like reagan did. but simple.was unfortunately it became the bible for never trump. there were some people within national view and continue to be very vocal anti- trump and they were in the view. . . . . . . i do believe was brian williams who filed the story. we actually did a story about this. we actually did. talk about the pot calling the kettle black. isn't it fascinating how the media are constantly savaging the president for the language he uses? while calling him a or calling him a fascist, while calling him every despicable name you could hurl at the president of the united states. attempting to do far worse than what they do. they have no right, none but you have a right. i have a right. these books have a right to pass judgment on donald t

trump came out and asked for lunch at trump tower. and you said, he pushed back softly and gently to words i would have thought could never appear in a sentence also containing the word trump. you described him as full of humility and graciousness which was 3.5 months before he declared and then he said, after he declared and was very braggadocio is and he said the man i met was nowhere to be found now that he was on stage. there is not a hint of humility or thoughtfulness or kindness. all the things he has shown to me. why do you think in your opinion does a presidents embrace a persona that seems to be so different from the person you seen privately and you think this hurts him with the females, with minority voters who maybe that is not their cup of tea. >> very good question. and, i am not alone, many people have said the same thing that in private he's a very different person. i was stunned. perception is what i went into believing i was going to get. and, as i wrote in the book, it was the opposite. thoughtful, quiet, inquisitiv

>> i think donald trump is still the donald trump he always has been.has shed some, no doubt, that couldn't work for him anymore. he had racism and particularly egregious and bothered people, the attack on the kingwomen of col congresswoman and congressman of baltimore and cities with large populations is unsettling to some but it's not as if we haven't heard things similar in the past. it's not clear why there would suddenly be more of a split now in which scaramucci goes, to be fair, it was more than just 11 days. he kpwas a campaign surrogate. he was in the white house almost from the beginning. right now if it's skaf mucci and omarosa, i don't think that will have much of an impact. >> one of the things we have seen from politico is tomba rack, very personal friend of trump, ran his inaugural committee and now they seemed to have had a falling out. curious what you know about that and whether there are potentially others like him who would be in bis crohris toll's mind, the kind of people whose serious people and public renunciation of trump could m